The Governor's Lady was a theatrical play written by Alice Bradley, directed by David Belasco

David Belasco

David Belasco was an American theatrical producer, impresario, director and playwright.-Biography:Born in San Francisco, California, where his Sephardic Jewish parents had moved from London, England, during the Gold Rush, he began working in a San Francisco theatre doing a variety of routine jobs,...

 and produced by Belasco and his son-in-law David Elliott. It opened at the Republic Theatre in New York in September, 1912, and starred Emma Dunn

Emma Dunn

Emma Dunn was an English-born American film actress. She appeared in 108 films between 1914 and 1948....

, Emmett Corrigan, Gladys Hanson

Gladys Hanson

Gladys Hanson was a stage and silent film actress. Hanson began her career on the Broadway stage in 1907 with the Charles Frohman Company...

 and Milton Sills

Milton Sills

Milton Sills was a highly successful American stage and film actor of the early twentieth century....

. The three-act contemporary domestic drama dealt with the then-little-discussed topic of divorce. Thee play closed after 135 performances, and is primarily known as an example of Belasco's theatrical naturalism, because he recreated a Childs Restaurant on stage using materials and food from the actual restaurant chain rather than conventional representative stage scenery.